Full Title: Grid-Connected Distributed Generation: Compensation Mechanism Basics
Author(s): Owen Zinaman, Alexandra Aznar, Carl Linvill, Naïm Darghouth, Timon Dubbeling, and Emanuele Bianco
Publisher(s): National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Publication Date: October 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
This short report defines compensation mechanisms for gridconnected, behind-the-meter distributed generation (DG) systems as instruments that comprise three core elements: (1) metering & billing arrangements, (2) sell rate design, and (3) retail rate design. This report describes metering & billing arrangements, with some limited discussion of sell rate design. We detail the three possible arrangements for metering & billing of DG: net energy metering (NEM); buy all, sell all; and net billing.